夌

Translingual

Etymology

Phono-semantic compound (形聲): phonetic 𡴆 + semantic 夊 (“walk”)

Han character

夌 (radical 35 夊+5, 8 strokes, cangjie input 土金竹水 (GCHE), four-corner 4040₇)

1. to dawdle
2. the name of the father of the Emperor Yao

Descendants

• 陵, 棱, 淩, 凌, 𩜁, 掕, 𡕮, 綾

References

• KangXi: page 245, character 5
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 5714
• Dae Jaweon: page 485, character 23
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 2, page 869, character 1
• Unihan data for U+590C

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Cantonese

Hanzi

夌 (Yale ling4)

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Japanese

Kanji

夌

Readings

• On: りょう (ryō)
• Kun: しのぐ (shinogu), すたれる (sutareru)

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Korean

Hanja

夌 (hangeul 릉>능, revised reung>neung, McCune-Reischauer rŭng>nŭng, Yale lung>nung)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

夌 (pinyin líng (ling2), Wade-Giles ling²)